Elizabeth Kostova Quotes

Bulgarians eat tarator every single day in summer. They think of it as salad although we'd call it a soup. You can make it as thick or thin as you like depending on how much water you add. It's very practical in summer because yogurt cools the body faster than water, but the water hydrates you.

- Elizabeth Kostova

No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.

- Elizabeth Kostova

My publishers are wonderful because they have let me write what I wanted to. They're wise enough to know that, with any author who's not simply writing formulas - who's trying to create something new - pressuring them to do something for market purposes almost always backfires. I can't imagine working under those circumstances, actually.

- Elizabeth Kostova

I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested in historical detective stories and research into history.

- Elizabeth Kostova

Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it falls over.

- Elizabeth Kostova

Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.

- Elizabeth Kostova

I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will happen.

- Elizabeth Kostova

I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years.

- Elizabeth Kostova

For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places.

- Elizabeth Kostova